Parents and educators ask SFUSD to limit student AI and device use, launch policy changes
Summary
Tech and Check representatives and educators urged the district to institute a moratorium on student generative-AI use, set grade-level device limits, ban recreational screen exposure at school and increase transparency around EdTech data collection.
A coalition called Tech and Check described a petition with roughly 900 signatures and urged the board to adopt several policies restricting in-school use of certain technologies and requiring parental consent for data collection.
"Our petition supports, 1, a moratorium on student generative AI use, 2, grade level limits on 1-to-1 devices and no recreational screen exposure at school, 3, social-media-free schools, 4, parental consent for data collecting EdTech products," a Tech and Check speaker said, listing the group's policy asks and directing listeners to a petition URL.
An educator who signed the petition described students accessing short-form video content and encountering traumatic material on Chromebooks and urged the district to block student-led YouTube access; a teacher at ER Taylor voiced concerns that an AI character is being used as part of early-grade reading screening and intervention without adequate safeguards.
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